Good Adds up?

I guess this is one of the new facebook things: Good adds up. I suppose it's a positive way to look at things. Some people in my timeline have gotten videos, I got a more static infographic page. Yes, it's all Greek to you😜

Facebook's year in Review

Figured out how to extricate this from facebook and upload it to YouTube.It's a little inaccurate (some old photos of me where tagged by someone, and I don't often post photos of myself on facebook, so that isn't as accurate as people who post a lot of Fb) - but it's fun to look at anyway. Και του χρόνου!

Now that's some fallout!

Late last week CBS and Paramount put forth official guidelines for Fan Films using Star Trek as their basis. There was the usual firestorm on the forums facebook on his in the various Star Trek fan film communities. This seems to have had a really huge chilling effect on all current fan film productions, including audio dramas. I chose to not really participate in this discussion

Trumpcademics

This has been making the rounds on social media this week: a fictitious article mocking presidential candidate Donald Trump by writing an academic article in Trumpspeak. We've got the best data. Premium stuff! Pretty funny ;-)

I'm 88 eh? You don't say!

The other day I took one of those silly Facebook tests. You know, the ones that ask you some limited amount of questions and they tell you something about yourself (your ideal profession, your age, your brain capacity, when you're going to die - whatever). This is nothing new, I remember doing silly tests like these since I started surfing the web in 1995 (hey, remember the Spark, and their

More humor... star trek Xtreme!

I was listening to Earl Grey, one of the Trek.fm podcasts, this past week, and the topic of discussion was about a fictions scenario, a what if they had made an animated series out of Star Trek: The Next Generation in the 90s once the live action series was off the air. It was a pretty funny episode to listen to, especially if you've seen the mess that is Star Trek the animated series...well...and

Boat of love the next generation

Something humorous found on facebook recently. A little parody of Star Trek: The Next Generation as the Love boat. This seems like an SNL sketch (from the time before I watched it). Look at those uniforms! ;-)

孔明の罠 - Kaizo Trap

A find on Facebook this week. An interesting animation of getting sucked into a game (Tron-style) and escaping from it ;-) The music needed a little better intro, but the visual synched pretty nicely with the audio once things got going!

Study in school...or else!

The other day in facebook this image came up in my timeline. It's in Greek, but basically the text translates as:Dad: If you don't study (hard) you will become like this guyHobo: I am professor!I guess regardless of the country, there are issues in higher education. In the US we have a high population of (low paid) adjuncts, and in Greece you have tenured folks making less than what adjuncts

Star Wars Engineer

Seems like this is one of the things that is popular this week on the internet: The Death Star Engineer giving a speech - or rather an explanation - of why his design was sound, and it was only because "magic space wizards" were involved that it blew up ;-) Pretty funny if you ask me :-)

Star Trek Beyond - first trailer

Well, the first trailer for Beyond is out... and it looks like Mission Impossible in Space. It's not that it's bad. I like the trailer - but it' just very generic looking. It looks like a generic, space, action movie that just happens to have the Star Trek logos and crew in it.Maybe other trailers in the future will be more indicative of what the movie is actually about.

Woah! Independence Day: Ressurgence!

Just caught this on one of my facebook feeds - a trailer for the sequel to Independence Day. This looks like a pretty fantastic sci-fi film (and I hope it's a great sequel). I remember seeing the original in the theaters one of my first summers back from Greece :)I did notice a noticeable absence of Will Smith though...

On Social Networking...

The other day one of my long time friends and colleague posted on Facebook a quick pondering: is LinkedIn the right place for academics? The underlying thought is that LinkedIn is very instrumentalist and positivist in how it represents someone. Essentially what this means is that we setup profiles that represent a reality that we want to market to others, and we want to pass on that reality (our reality)

AOL Keywords for a new decade

Last week I was off from work. I was quite happy because I thought I would be able to go to my local baker every day and sample each and every daily specialty they had. Unfortunately they chose the same week I took off to complete renovations to their operation so no bread unless I went to the not-so-local farmers markets where they also sell their wonderful bread-seriously, their bread